➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Report: Youth Should Not Be Behind Bars (Includes audio)
Public News Service – October 24, 2016
The Annie E. Casey Foundation president and CEO Patrick McCarthy says these prisons have high recidivism rates and do not improve long-term outcomes for youth. “These institutions fail at protecting the community, they fail at turning young lives around, they are unconscionably expensive, they’re prone to abuse, they defy reform and the bottom line is we have alternatives,” he states. Report: The Future of Youth Justice: http://www.aecf.org/resources/the-future-of-youth-justice
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-10-24/juvenile-justice/report-youth-should-not-be-behind-bars/a54594-1